Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much of the market wraps third-party foundation models [...
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 18:28 EDT / JUNE 16 2026 AI Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls by Duncan Riley Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries.
Where much of the market wraps third-party foundation models around short, scripted tasks such as appointment reminders and call routing, Bland runs on voice models it built itself.
- 5 million calls a week in healthcare, financial services and other regulated sectors.
- Bland claims more than 250 enterprise customers, among them Samsara Inc.
Granet told Fortune that 180 investors passed on the company during its Y Combinator days, many of them convinced phone calls were on the way out.
- "Their decision to build models in-house and focus on complex, high-stakes interactions has positioned them ahead of the market.
" The new round takes the total raised by Bland to more than $100 million.
- Our new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.
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- #Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries.
- #SiliconANGLE UPDATED 18:28 EDT / JUNE 16 2026 AI Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls by Duncan Riley Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries.
- #5 million calls a week in healthcare, financial services and other regulated sectors.
- #Last year it processed more than 175 million.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 18:28 EDT / JUNE 16 2026 AI Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls by Duncan Riley Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much of the market wraps third-party foundation models around short, scripted tasks such as appointment reminders and call routing, Bland runs on voice models it built itself.
Customers cannot swap in models from other providers. The bet is on calls that other systems choke on. A typical Bland call runs 30 to 45 minutes.
In a healthcare example, an agent walks an elderly patient through a blood pressure reading, reads back the numbers and works out whether to call in emergency services. The company says it now handles upward of 3. 5 million calls a week in healthcare, financial services and other regulated sectors.
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